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water cooling isn't really required, basically it works the same as normal air cooling, except the water brings the heat futher away so it can be dumped directly out of the case... surface area is surface area, so long as you have good fans to dump the heat, doesn't matter if it's metal or water...

keep in mind that DCS is a first person shooter, the only difference is instead of the 1st person guy walking, he's sitting... so higher framerates make the same difference in a flight sim as a walking sim... the big difference is, and the reason people say high framerates don't make as much of a difference in flight sims, is the majority of the time you're doing things that don't require high precision and timing in a flight sim... probably more than 99% of the time you can basically take your hands off the stick and just watch if you've got a good autopilot in your plane... but there's that 1% where getting a clean shot at someone with your guns, or getting a missile off just before someone else does... or try hovering in the huey or mi-8 at 50 fps, then try it at 144 fps, it's something i noticed right away after getting my 1080ti, that i can actually hover in the mi-8 now...

Go with 128 and put DCS on a ram drive :D

why do you like glossy screens? they reflect everything... if you have an overhead light, then you get a huge blind spot where it just blots out the monitor...

well... dcs can't really be run max settings, unless you're playing 1080p 60hz, but you'll be able to turn the settings up pretty darn high... and 4300$ is a good price for that.

I have the same PG278Q monitor as well, but i was really lucky and have no light bleed on mine, I was really surprised, and expecting some, after seeing pictures of others with light bleed, i mean i saw one with light bleed so bad it was like grey on the bottom two corners and black on the top two... i woulda RMA'd or just downright returned the monitor.... but i also bought a BENQ GW2765HT IPS monitor, but its 60hz 4MS, it has way better colour quality and much darker blacks.

yeah but my gpu isn't maxing out, if i had a faster cpu, i'd get even higher fps.

it was just an example... an over exaggeration... you could have something that costs twice as much as a competitor but be worse too... shoes are a good example of that... a 70$ pair of steel toed will last far longer than a 400$ pair of nikes... just trying to say price and performance are not the same thing, and not linked in any way, shape, or form... that if you have the money, more performance is more performance, some people seem to forget that, now that AMD has something closer to intel IPC wise... even if intel and AMD cpus had exactly equal IPC, or AMD even had slightly better than intel, the new intel CPUs still clock to 4.5+ ghz and support quad channel, much higher freqency memory... we shall see what more cores does for intel soon™

really, all those "numbers" come down to... how well do the games you play run with x cpu at x freqency on x motherboard with x ram at x freqency and x videocard at x frequincy... anyone who just takes random benchmarks from some games nobody plays made by someone who's trying to sell you something, not help you, but sell their stuff to you, is an idiot... I will believe AMD has a better product than intel when I see the new I9 benchmarks in the games I play give lower performance... price has nothing to do with what's better, price has to do with what you get for what you pay... a cpu that costs 1000$ but is only 2% faster than a CPU that costs 500$ is still better than the 500$ cpu. the big thing is the games you play, the programs you use on a daily basis... not just random benchmarks...

probably means CPU@4.2ghz and RAM@2133mhz I suggest checking the thermal paste, re-seating the water block, making sure it has good contact with the CPU, checking the fans are pointing in the right directions

I have a 1080p and two 1440p monitors at 27" I really enjoy using the 1080p one for movies, because it's native resolution is the same as most of them, but unless you're going to be sitting 6 feet or more away from the monitor, 1080p is a pretty low resolution for the size...

I have a 1080ti using a 2600k, and yeah, the 1080ti is bottlenecked hard in DCS... with my GTX780, visibility and textures on high, everything else off or low, cockpit 512 and 2xmsaa i got 50-80 fps.... using the settings below i get between 70-140 fps in DCS with my 1080ti in 1.5

he's talking about getting a 200hz (200 fps) at 1440p, not doable in new games or 144hz at 4K not doable in new games either.... sure you can get 60 fps at 4K, but over twice that is impossible and won't be possible for a long time... unless you're playing like half-life 2, dota, team fortress 2, games like them... I just got a 1080ti today, and i'm getting between 70 and 150 fps in dcs at 1440p, and im not using near max settings. i have a 144hz monitor. emphasis on 144 to 200 fps at 1440p and higher here's my settings:

you won't be running DCS at 144+ fps and 4K any time soon, not within the next few generations, if you wanna make use of 100+ fps, you're better off getting a G-sync 1440p monitor... wider is good too, but you're fooling yourself if you think anything will be able to run 4k at a steady 144fps any time in the next few years at least...

I used to rent 688 attack sub from the local video rental place all the time for sega genesis, then i got the sega channel, and it was on that, was awesome, but when i got silent hunter 2, i just couldn't play it anymore... my cousin and I used to play destoryer command and silent hunter 2 multiplayer, super fun, i always used to make him play in the destroyer.

the difference is, with the KA-50 you can sit just outside SAM range and lob laser guided missiles, while the SU-25T would crash if it tried to do that...

and don't forget DCS world only uses 1 core, it needs a 2nd core just for sound, you could shut off all other cores except for 2 on your cpu, clock 1 core to 200mhz for the sound and keep the other at 5ghz, and it would work fine, really, just 1 core... or you could shut off all but 1 core and leave hyperthreading on, and really honestly just use 1 core... AMD IPC, still isn't as good as intel IPC, a current gen i7 at 4GHz is faster than a ryzen at 4ghz(anywhere up to quad core)... the difference is a current gen i7 costs the same (roughly) but will easily clock to 5ghz... also the fact that a 4 core intel cpu still beats out an 8 core amd cpu in non-gpu bound games, even some that, unlike dcs, actually can use 8 threads.... if you're buying a computer, you should buy it for what you play now, to get the best possible experience for right now, because futureproofing is easier than ever, since cpu/gpu performance has gone from 60%+ a year, the way it was in the 90s and early 2000s, to... we're lucky if we see 10% gains in a year now...

I'd like to see a 7700K or better overclocked to 5GHz with a reasonably inexpensive AIO water cooler and a 1080ti vs ryzen also with 32gb of the same speed and latency ram, both running on m.2 SSDs the 7700K is like 449$ CDN right now, and the 1800X is 669$, so... bah probly not gonna happen... also i think comparing a sandy to a current i7 or zen cpu, they'll kick its ass... even a sandy overclocked to 4.5ghz probly won't beat either...

and really only 1 core... like 1.5% on a second core just for sound... could have a 400mhz pentium 3 for the 2nd core...

mostly "h" works great, and for everything else just set up a hat switch or something as trim, the "a" key is kinda scary cause if you hit it at the wrong times your plane can be stuck in a roll even though your stick is centered... I think if more sticks had force feedback the autopilot would be a lot cooler...

for all intents and purposes, disregarding real life.... in DCS the mig-29S has TWS2, a better radar over all and can use R-77 missiles, so is really the best one of the three... I often take the A just for the novelty of killing people who wouldn't know how to play without the aim-120, but then i also take the mig-21 for that reason...

16GB of ram and an SSD, other than that, the PC is ok the laptop might have issues though...

delete everything in the folder c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution back it up if you want, but you can just delete it and windows update will re-fill it with new stuff

There are two yellow lights on the upper panel that tell you you've got your collective set too high(LM/RM POWER), just make sure those lights are never on, and you're fine. also yeah VMAX is a thing, with a full load you can go around 270kph, empty you can go around 305kph...

F-5 turns tighter, but it loses its airspeed and is far slower and accelerates far worse than either the mig-21 or the viggen, so the mig or viggen can just zoom away... viggen accelerates better than the mig-21, but craps out at low speeds the mig-21 turns better than the viggen, except at super high speeds